Ian

Project Manager @ShownMedia

[Mitchell @MitcheIl]

Shown is now 100 people across 40 countries…

Problem: We need more cracked ppl. The best in the world.
Solution: I hire you

The roles we need filled right now:

> Creative Director (directing viral launch videos)
> Graphic Designer (making UI/graphics for our videos)
> Motion Designers (animating graphics that get millions of views)
> UGC Engineer (managing an army of 100s of UGC creators)
and soooo many more

Here’s what you’d get:
- You’d work directly with CEOs of billion dollar companies, you get full ownership in your work, and you’ll leave with 100M+ views on your videos.
- You’ll be a part of the biggest tech launches on the planet.
- You’ll do the best and most fun work you’ve ever done.
- If you think you’d be a good fit for us - DM me a one paragraph pitch of what you’re good at. (I’ve hired 3 ppl this way in the past month)

Know someone good? Refer them and I’ll send you up to $5,000 if we hire them.

[Ian @Iansj04]

@MitcheIl Shown

[Shensi Ding @shensi]

AI agents turn every employee into a security risk.

Introducing Agent Handler for Employees: secure AI access for every employee.

We’ll give you $10K if you get sensitive info from @JeanelleAgent.

[marcus @marcusyul]

@shensi @JeanelleAgent people got too comfortable with their AI agents and thought there's no need to look at anything! just hand it over to the AI!

and it landed them in serious trouble. thanks to you that’s going to be a distant memory

[Ian @Iansj04]

@emilymcdavitt @shownmedia Welcome Emily!

[Ian @Iansj04]

@threadoor @shownmedia Welcome!!!

[Ian @Iansj04]

@rimedimedia @shownmedia Welcome!!!

[Ian @Iansj04]

@varunkundra ROKT

[Varun Kundra @varunkundra]

ANNOUNCEMENT: Rokt has just paid out over $1 BILLION to brands.

Rokt is a money printing button: Click enable and add up to 10% more profit.

RT + comment "Rokt" and I'll send you a FREE Profit Gap Agent.

[Ian @Iansj04]

@oliverbrocato SCAN

[oliverb @oliverbrocato]

We raised $64M for this moment: Introducing Bustem.

Bustem scans the internet to find and eliminate 100% of counterfeits

RT + comment “SCAN” and I’ll send you a list of every scammer targeting your brand 🫵

[ben @contraben]

Introducing Contra Payments.

The first payments platform that lets you sell to AI Agents.

RT + Comment “Contra” and I’ll send you 100 products AI agents are looking for.

[Matt Epstein @mattepstein]

I've been dead silent about this for 3 months...

Three months ago, @justindross and @Maxtbrenner
asked me to run their Series B announcement.

I went full Pyscho mode:

Putting this video through 35 rounds of revisions.

Running the copy for the video through 10 rounds of
meticulous inspection.

The result:
-Their sales calendar is completely booked.
-Hundreds of inbound meetings.
-Dozens of enterprise buyers actively requesting demos.

This is what happens when you take generational
founders, and pair them with Mr. Beast level storytelling.

I have capacity for 2 more launches in Q1.

YOU MUST have a product or story RIPE for a launch.
Comment "Launch" and I'II reach out.

[Victor Cardenas Codriansky @victorcardenas]

Slash, @slashapp, just crossed $150M in annualized revenue profitably.

We went from $2M -> $150M in 24 months making us the fastest-growing business banking* platform of all time.

700 word post on 4 guiding principles that got us here.

This cost us >$10M dollars to learn...

(Bookmark this)

I'll cover:

• Picking the right market (where 99% of founders go wrong)
• Why revenue is the ONLY business metric that matters
• Why market saturation is fake
• What every founder does day to day that they shouldn't

1. Attack “small” markets:

Startup founders - myself included - gravitate towards working on companies that have huge upside. Here's the problem: it’s difficult to find aggressive product-market fit / build a differentiated product if you don’t sell ONE offer to ONE person.

I'll repeat: one offer, to one person

Examples:

• PayPal didn't start by trying to own 70% of online payments they started with payment processing just for eBay merchants.
• Uber started as black cars for rich SF people.

Ask yourself, what am I selling and to who?

If you're selling more than one thing to more than one person, in the beginning, you're not niche enough.

Slash started by building a better credit card for SNEAKER RESELLERS.

Ridiculously niche. And that tiny wedge alone got us to $5M ARR in 11 months.

Once you dominate the niche, you earn the right (and the cash) to expand outward.

We STILL go after “small” verticals because our competitors are too arrogant to do it. We walk in and own them.

2. Revenue is the only metric that matters. Everything else is cope.

If your revenue isn't growing, nothing else matters.

Revenue gives you two things:

A) Money to redeploy. (Obvious.)

B) Momentum.

A team that’s winning wants to work harder.
A team that’s losing checks out.

To become a unicorn, you have to outwork everyone else.
To outwork everyone else, you need morale.
To get morale, you need wins.
To get wins, you need revenue.

Everything ladders back to one thing: Sell more, sooner.

Drive sales and demand → everything else falls into place.

3. “Market saturation” is fake.

When starting Slash, everyone told us we'd never be successful because Ramp, Brex, and Mercury were already worth > $10bn.

The reality is that fintech is only 5% penetrated. 95% of business deposits and corporate card spend still runs through the legacy banks.

Many markets are similar to B2B fintech. They can “feel” settled because there is a sexy startup that everyone’s heard about, but dinosaurs have all the rev share.

There's always a way to find your wedge.

4. 99% of founders do the wrong thing at the wrong time

When you start your role as the founder is to do EVERYTHING. And you should outsource nothing.

Example: If you run an ecom business you should write film and edit EVERY single script.

If you're a CTO you should write every line of code.

Biggest 🚩in an early stage founder is someone who says they need to "outsource to an expert".

No. You ARE the expert or you become one. Founders who outsource early are lazy.

When you grow this needs to change rapidly. >10M ARR you need to SHIFT fast.

Your role as the founder should be to bring in people competent enough to deliver on all of your initiatives.

There is simply too much to do and it won’t be possible for you to brute force your way out of every problem.

We're winning because 65% of our team is on the spectrum.

We have savant engineers who this year alone have, shipped treasury, Stablecoin Payments, check deposits, SWIFT, Global USD, accounting automations, a completely new interface, and more.

We have a world-class GTM and ops team. Because of it, we blow our competitors out of the water when it comes to revenue / employee, payment volume / employee, and other efficiency metrics.

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If you have read this far, thank you.

I got told countless times Slash would never be anything.

We want Slash to be the first trillion dollar fintech company in the world.

At our current growth rate we'll hit 1 billion dollars in revenue run rate in 18 months and 100 billion in 7 years.

We’re giving it our all to accelerate our growth rate and hit these metrics even faster.

[Matt Epstein @mattepstein]

I'M Hiring a Content Writer (X + LinkedIn)

Top-of-market pay. $8K referral if we hire your intro.

Shown Media turns boring SaaS into internet events.

We’ve driven 10M+ views, thousands of demos, and multi-million-dollar pipelines for brands like Slash, Meridian Marpipe and more.

Why this role:
1. You live on X/LinkedIn. You study hooks, watch time, saves, and comments like a hawk.

2. You can translate complex products into scroll-stopping posts, threads, carousels, and creator scripts that spread.

3. You love content and obsess over copywriting and ogilvy.

You might be a fit if you:
Can reverse-engineer virality and write fast under pressure

Turn raw ideas into tight hooks, proof, and receipts

Love testing 3–5 angles per idea and killing what doesn’t

It’s a terrible fit if you:

Don’t care about content or compounding reach

Need heavy hand-holding or hate feedback loops

DM me or tag someone below. If we hire the person you introduce, you get $8k.

[Victor Cardenas Codriansky @victorcardenas]

Slash just crossed $1 BILLION in Stablecoin payments.

We were the first to bring Stablecoins directly into business banking.

It took MILLIONS in legal fees to get here… Here’s why it matters 👇

[Ian @Iansj04]

@LinkedInHelp @LinkedInHelp

[Ian @Iansj04]

@LinkedInHelp My account is restricted & I can’t get past verification. Tried submitting multiple times but no update. Now tickets won’t go through (shows error). Been stuck for weeks — can you escalate?

[Ian @Iansj04]

@LinkedInHelp @LinkedInHelp

[Maxx Blank 🐳 @aryehMaxx]

In 2021 I had 2 loans on my house. I was $500k in debt. I told my wife we’d be ok...

Today, the company I co-founded (Triple Whale) is used by 50k brands. And now, we’re making our biggest update yet:

Introducing the Black Friday AI Workspace.

It's like ChatGPT + Zapier BUT with all of your historic Black Friday performance and real time business context.

It can plan, create and run your Black Friday.

Oh, and we made it 100% FREE... (usually $1–5k/month).

If you’ve already heard about or used Moby (our AI), it’s now 11x more powerful.

Here’s what’s inside the workspace:

1. Dashboards: We connect your entire stack (ads, email, inventory, CAC, LTV) into one command center. Track performance across your business in real time.

2. Chat: It’s like ChatGPT, except instead of pulling answers from Reddit, it’s trained on $1.4B in Black Friday revenue and your entire tech stack. In the last month it's gotten 30x smarter and now writes its own code to solve problems.

3. Agents: Agents are like AI employees. We’re launching 3 Black Friday Agents. These agents can optimize ad budgets and do 80% of email/sms work. Each Agent run uses hundreds of API calls and we’re covering the bill for it.
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4 years ago I asked @AY_Orbach and @IvanChernykh4 if they wanted to be my business partners. They were living on government food stipends; I had $500k in debt.

Today, we're proud that Triple Whale serves 50,000 brands and has 180 employees.

All thanks to immense support from brands like you and our Incredible supporters and investors like: @Shopify @ShaanVP @iamshackelford @EggrolI @Pdfd2diamond (too many to mention but thank you all ❤️)

Our mission is simple: give every business the intelligence to grow faster and more efficiently.

Today is ONE massive step towards that future.

And the best part? This is COMPLETELY free. Link is below this post.
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Not enough? We’re also giving away our entire $1.4B Black Friday Benchmark dataset.

It shows exactly where the best brands run ads, how they spend, and what works.

No one else has this amount of data.

RT + comment “Moby” and I’ll DM it to you.